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Bringing urban
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region through double-lifting method and expansion of irrigation”, “Building new food storages and related facilities in different strategic areas of the country”, and “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Film City (Phase-II)”.
According to the document prepared for today’s Ecnec meeting, the estimated cost for the “My village-my town” pilot project will be Tk 800 crore.
It will be implemented by the LGED and Department of Public Health Engineering under the LGD by June 2026.
Besides, the Sylhet Medical University, to be built in Sylhet’s South Surma upazila, will be built at an estimated cost of Tk 2,036.41 crore. It will be implemented by June 2027.
For the Jhenai, Ghaghat, Bangshi and Nagda rivers project, the government will spend an estimated Tk 4,168.16 crore while the project will be completed by BIWTA by December 2026.
The project areas fall under different upazilas of Rangpur, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Manikganj, Jamalpur, Dhaka, Gazipur, Tangail, and Sherpur districts.
Meanwhile, by implementing the Padma river water distribution and irrigation in the Barind tract project, the government aims at expanding irrigation to 10,250 hectares of arable lands in the region.
By implementing the project, farmers will be able to harvest crops on arable land three times a year, instead of one. This will ensure production of an additional 1.4 lakh tonnes of crops each year.
The estimated cost for the project is Tk 548.05 crore and the implementation authority is Barind Multipurpose Development Authority.
The project areas are Godagari, Tanore and Poba upazilas of Rajshahi districts while it will be implemented by June 2026.
Also, the government will undertake a project to build 196 new food storages in 131 upazilas (including three city corporations) under 53 districts of eight divisions.
The estimated cost of the project will be Tk 814.5 crore and the implementing authority will be the Directorate General of Food. The project will be implemented by June 2026.
Besides, the “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Film City (Phase II)” project will be implemented at a cost of Tk 379.91 in Gazipur by December 2024.
At today’s Ecnec meeting, proposals for a total of 17 revised and new projects are likely to be placed for approval.

18-40 age
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Five children aged under five years have died so far. The mortality numbers are seven for patients aged 5-10; 12 for 10-18; 27 for 40-60; 14 for 60-80; and 2 for patients aged 80 years and older.
Brig Gen Md Nazmul Haque, director of DMCH, said 228 dengue patients were treated in the hospital yesterday. The highest number of dengue patients treated in a single day (281) was also recorded this year.
Despite treating 1,200 to 1,300 patients in a single day, the medical wards only have 780 seats, he mentioned.
He also suggested individuals to promptly get tested upon the earliest onset of fever.
Patients with fever should get tested immediately irrespective of whether there are symptoms associated with dengue, including body ache, he added.